Sports Business | March 7, 2011 | Matt Cutler
A consortium of Embratel and Claro has been appointed as a national sponsor of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Embratel and Claro has acquired exclusive rights within the telecommunications category for the Games, with the sponsorship deal...
Forbes | March 7, 2011 | Agustino Fontevecchia
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who is soon to be re-deployed as chairman after founder Larry Page takes the reins in April, gave an interview over the weekend from Buenos Aires where he gave clues as to the search-giant’s new...
Research and Markets | March 7, 2011 | Press Release
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/51dfb5/brazil_telecommuni) has announced the addition of the "Brazil Telecommunications Report Q1 2011" report to their offering.
Brazil Telecommunications Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, telecommunication associations, government departments and regulatory...
Bloomberg | March 4, 2011 | Laura Price
Brazil Says Raising Rate to 11.75% Part of ‘Adjustment Process’
Brazil’s central bank signaled it will raise the benchmark interest rate for a third straight meeting next month, after pushing borrowing costs yesterday to a two-year high to cool...
Business News Americas | March 4, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás
Brazilian telecoms operator Oi (NYSE: TNE) reached a market share of 19% in the São Paulo metropolitan area at end-2010, and about 14% in São Paulo state, company investor relations director Alex Zornig said during a...
Wall Street Journal | March 4, 2011 | JOSÉ DE CORDOBA
MEXICO CITY—Three of Mexico's most prominent billionaires—who were once a cozy group of amigos protecting each other's backs—are now battling over how to divvy up the country's $35-billion-a-year telecommunication and TV-broadcast market.
The fight pits Carlos Slim,...
HaitiLibre | March 3, 2011
World Bank (WB) and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) proposes the creation of a submarine cable terminal (optical fiber) to facilitate access to the Dominican Republic and Haiti at the rest of the world.
The presentation of this project was made...
PR Newswire | March 2, 2011 | Press Release
PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Dekal Wireless and Altai Technologies are proud to announce the completion of the world's first SuperWiFi broadband network with nationwide coverage in Jamaica. Dekal Wireless is an early adopter of Altai's SuperWiFi...
Fox News | March 3, 2011
More than 20 telephone operators have banded together to ask the Mexican government to regulate the interconnection fees charged by billionaire Carlos Slim's Telcel, the companies said.
"In an unprecedented move, our country's telecommunications operators ... have joined together with...
Business News Americas | March 2, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Chilean telco Movistar expects to launch in the next year a series of new applications around the areas of education, e-health and mobile banking, senior executives from the operator told BNamericas.
The notion that mobile operators have...
Gemalto | March 2, 2011 | Press Release
Just Ask Gemalto, for Answers about Protecting Your Digital Lifestyle and Safeguarding Personal Information, Launches in Brazil: JustAskGemalto.com.br
Sao Paulo, BRAZIL, Mar 2, 2011 - Website JustAskGemalto.com launched a new version for Brazilian consumers,JustAskGemalto.com.br. Already popular in the United States,...
Wall Street Journal | March 1, 2011 | Ruth Bender
PARIS—Vivendi SA is banking on its Brazilian telecommunication unit to continue to boost the company's revenues this year, as the French entertainment conglomerate runs up against barriers to growth in Europe.
Europe's biggest entertainment and telecoms...
Andina | March 2, 2011
Lima, Mar. 02 (ANDINA). Peruvian telecommunications regulator Osiptel has announced it has completed the prepay mobile line registration process.
Of the 6 million mobile lines still unregistered at 1 march 2010, over 5 million have completed their registration by 28 February...
PR Newswire | February 28, 2011 | Press Release
Transition to all MPEG-4 will optimize bandwidth utilization, readying the network for delivery of more high definition services
HORSHAM, Pa., Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Motorola Mobility Inc. (NYSE: MMI) announced today that Home Box Office (HBO) Latin America will upgrade its...
Synchronica | March 1, 2011 | Press Release
Highlights:
Porta Ecuador offers Synchronica-based mobile instant messaging (IM) service to all 10.3 million subscribers
Porta's carrier-branded mobile IM service will create customer stickiness and reduce churn
Synchronica's industry-standard IMPS technology provides Porta with the opportunity to gain a high...
Synchronica | March 1, 2011 | Press Release
Highlights:
Porta Ecuador offers Synchronica-based mobile instant messaging (IM) service to all 10.3 million subscribers
Porta's carrier-branded mobile IM service will create customer stickiness and reduce churn
Synchronica's industry-standard IMPS technology provides Porta with the opportunity to gain a high...
SCANBUY LAUNCHES MEXICO OFFICE AS MOBILE BARCODES GAIN TRACTION AROUND THE WORLD
Millions of Users Already Have Application on Telcel Camera Phones
New York, NY and Mexico City, MEXICO – Mar. 1, 2011 -- Scanbuy, Inc. (www.scanbuy.com), the global leader in mobile barcode solutions, today announced...
Live PR | February 27, 2011 | Press Release
Communications Test Design, Inc. : (CTDI), the world´s largest independent communications repair and logistics provider, today announced a joint venture, CTDI do Brasil, with São Paolo, Brazil-based Network UNO. The company, whose headquarters will be located in...
Business News Americas | February 25, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás
Latin America continued to boost Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica's (NYSE: TEF) revenues in 2010, company chairman César Alierta said during a conference call with investors.
Alierta highlighted that the region accounted for 43% of the operator's...
Business News Americas | February 28, 2011 | Josh Miller
Along with other areas of Brazil's government, the communications ministry (Minicom) will see its 2011 budget suffer cuts, but the national broadband plan (PNBL) is expected to remain pretty much intact, analysts told BNamericas.
"From what...
Fujitsu | February 25, 2011 | Press Release
DTT solution for Latin America market with best cost/performance ratio
Singapore, February 25, 2011 — Fujitsu Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd (FSAL) announces the adoption of a full Ginga software solution from TQTVD, a Brazilian company in the TOTVS group.
TOTVS...
Harris Corporation | February 28, 2011 | Press Release
MELBOURNE, FL/ROCHESTER, NY, February 28, 2011 — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has received $14 million in orders from the Federative Republic of Brazil to provide Falcon III® and Falcon II®...
F-Secure | February 24, 2011 | Press Release
Helsinki, Finland – February 23, 2011: F-Secure and Telefonica have entered into a long term regional partnership to offer Telefonica’s wireless and mobile broadband customers unparalleled internet protection and storage related services. Telefonica has almost 145 million*...
